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Balfour Beatty to build £30m Tower Hill hotel

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £30m London hotel scheme for the citizenM hotel group to be built over the Tower Hill London Underground station.

The nine-storey hotel will comprise 370 modular bedrooms over eight floors, a ground-floor cafe, bar, living room spaces and a SocietyM business club on the eighth and ninth levels.

Traditional construction methods will be used to construct the basement and ground floor.

Balfour Beatty will use modular construction on levels one to eight with the hotel rooms formed by double-length pods with integral corridor sections.

These will be constructed and finished off site and put in place by tower cranes to reduce onsite construction times and minimise safety hazards.

The new building will be constructed over the exit hall of the Tower Hill London Underground Station. The works will also include two new step-free access routes, lifts to the station platforms and re-landscaping of the adjacent public open space.

Located in close proximity to the Tower of London, the site overlooks the world heritage attraction and has the remains of an ancient Roman wall running past it that will be protected throughout the construction phase.

A fully boarded and sheeted scaffold frame will encase the Roman wall for the duration of the works, and an exclusion zone will be created to protect the wall from the movement of site plant and equipment.

Extensive external works to the hotel and environ of the station will complete the development.

The Trinity Square development will be the flagship citizenM hotel and is designed to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating. The main works of the hotel are scheduled for completion in autumn 2014.

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